Can Type 1 Diabetes Be Reversed?

I believe that every illness is an opportunity to learn something about ourselves. Most of us however are not willing to make inconvenient diet and lifestyle changes and so the delegate responsibility to the pharmaceutical industry waiting for the magic pill to solve all our issues. So we can continue living exactly the same way we always have.

We develop a sense of identity with our illness and that has its payoffs too. I would know. Ive had type 1 diabetes for 30 years.

Sadly it isn't until you begin to suffer from a serious problem or symptom that may eventually kill you, that you begin to search high and low for an explanation and solution to your predicament.

I'm at that stage now. I've had some serious and typical signs of long term diabetes complications that I can no longer afford to ignore.

I'm at the stage that if I don't get real honest about how I blame, make excuses and delegate responsibility I could die with the next few years. And this has been a great wake up call!

Most type 1 diabetics have the luxury of covering their dietary 'sins' with insulin. I eat a cake, have an extra insulin injection, or two. Insulin helps us delay facing the consequences of our actions. Until perhaps you have lived this way for several decades.

All diabetics are supposedly predisposed to cancer, heart disease, depression, kidney failure, amputations, nerve damage and blindness. The duration of instability of our blood sugar levels will determine how long our body is able to handle these imbalances.

Its very taxing on our body to swing between extreme blood sugar levels. Most times we may look ok on the outside but the inside tells a different story.

We are prone to developing life threatening illnesses because all our organs have to work so much harder to maintain balance. Our internal reserves of nutrients are in deficit because we overspend.

Most, if not ALL, diabetics are deficient in zinc, magnesium, chromium, vitamin C, E and several other essential nutrients. Deficiencies of just one of these nutrients predisposes us to creating an environment that supports illness.

Take magnesium for example. It is a known fact that diabetics excrete higher levels of magnesium in their urine. A deficiency of magnesium can present in an array of heart issues, metabolic syndrome, mood disorders, depression, obesity, and fatigue.

So when we go for our 3 monthly check up and we experience for example, severe bouts of depression, what does our typical doctor do? He sure doesn't tell you about diabetes predisposing you to magnesium deficiency! No, he just tells you that unfortunately you are very likely to get chronic depression because that's typical for long term diabetics and recommends an antidepressant.

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful that I have insulin and can stay alive. But I believe that insulin is a crutch and I'm still limping toward a slow predictable death.

When I was diagnosed I just received the standard information about glyceamic index, portion control, endless carbohydrate counting, and NOTHING about the actual nutrients in food or the implications and significance of common deficiencies! Let alone the significance of stress management!

Diabetes is also known to be the most expensive illness to have. So it got me thinking, why would there ever be a cure for diabetes if we are one of the biggest customers for pharmaceutical industry?

Our sick care industry survives and thrives when people remain unaware, in fear, and are continuously sick. The more we can expand our perspective, the more we are able to make conscious choices. Ignorance is a choice now days.

For example, did you know that particular vaccinations have shown to increase type 1 diabetes? There was a documented situation in New Zealand where the hepatitis B immunization program was followed by an epidemic of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Myelitis (type 1). The incidence of type 1 diabetes from 1982-1987 was 11.3 in 100,000 per year. After the hepatitis B vaccination program this rose to 60% in 1989-1991 to 18.2 in 100,000 per year!

Just knowing this information will lead us to question many other things we have been coerced to believe that were 'good' for us. I guess what has always bothered me is the creation of any dependency and constant confirmation that our body is not to be trusted.

I believe every illness can be reversed. But only IF, and WHEN we are ready to honestly look at what we choose to do (or not do) every single day. Everything we eat, drink and think is either going to be tipping the balance toward health or further illness.

I'm SO ready to stop blaming, delegating, making excuses, defending my identity as a diabetic. I'm over it.

We have always looked for a drug solution to throw at a health concern. And with diabetes statistics getting higher every year, clearly we are not succeeding. We have just expanded the list of complications, side effects and thrown more drugs into the mix.

I had to learn the hard way about deficiencies. I know exactly what it feels like and what my body presents with when iv neglected myself. I have seen others in practice make miraculous recoveries with simple supplementation and total commitment to putting themselves first, and healing. This was very empowering!

 
So, in conclusion, my answer is yes I do believe that type 1 can be reversed and we can go into remission. But that depends totally on ME and not how much people have donated to further medical research.

When we shift our focus and start to look at causes rather than cures, we take our personal power back. We are able to lessen our dependency on any drug if we are willing to open our mind, be flexible and perhaps re learn everything that we have been taught about whats possible for us. And take action!

My recent brushes with death have strengthened my resolve to fully focus on healing, not disease. I don't want to know anymore about HOW the body gets sick, and labeling more syndromes. I want to know more about HOW the body gets well and stays well.

I propose that simply setting an intention toward health and healing shifts our perspective and opens us up to previously unseen opportunities. Just by realizing that we are not victims and have power over our own lives gives us a renewed sense of well being.
 

What about you, how do you feel about where your state of health is going? Where are you headed, further down the road of predicted deterioration? Or are you making conscious daily choices heading toward achieving balance and a return to your natural state of health? Do you feel the Healers spirit rising within you?

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